2024 Collegiate Wind Competition

Hello, CWC 2024 teams! We have an opportunity to present your project posters during CLEANPOWER's Poster Reception on Tuesday, May 7. This event will take place on the exhibition hall floor. With this in mind, we recommend your team’s poster be no bigger than but as close as possible to 36 inches by 48 inches, landscape or portrait orientation. If you need to attach your poster to something more rigid, we will provide one foam-core backing per team, including learn-along teams. We will also provide easels for your posters. If you are unable to change the size of your poster, please try to get as close as you can to 36 inches by 48 inches. 

Refer to page 7 of the Phases 2 and 3 Rules document for details on your poster.

We're looking forward to seeing you at CLEANPOWER in just a few weeks!

Congratulations to the 12 collegiate teams who won Phase 2 of the 2024 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Collegiate Wind Competition!

These teams will receive a cash prize of up to $15,000 per team and will advance to the third and final phase of CWC 2024. Over the next few months, they will complete the wind turbine prototype design reports and wind farm site designs they started during Phase 2. They will also build and test their turbine prototypes and continue to build connections with the wind energy industry and their communities. Then, this spring, they will attend the CWC 2024 final event, which will be held in conjunction with the American Clean Power Association’s CLEANPOWER Conference and Exhibition in Minneapolis.

Read the announcement from DOE's Wind Energy Technologies Office to find out which teams won Phase 2 of CWC 2024. 

Best of luck, teams! We can’t wait to see you present your work at the final event this spring! 

Happy New Year, CWC Teams!

We need your help! We are developing a short video to promote the CWC25 application period, which will open in a few months. We'd love to include in this video any photos or footage you have captured of your CWC activities so far--especially photos or footage of the following:

• Community outreach
• Presentations at elementary schools
• Studying the environmental impact of wind energy
• Visiting wind farms
• Meeting with wind energy professionals

If you have captured this type of imagery, please upload it to this folder by Friday, January 26. This request is entirely optional, but it will help us tremendously if you can contribute. Thanks!

The Collegiate Wind Competition organizers would like to remind all CWC 2024 teams that important questions and discussions about the 2024 competition—including clarification of and updates to the rules document—can be found in the HeroX Forum tab. If you have a question, please check the Forum tab to see if it has already been answered. If you have a new question, we also encourage you to post it in the Forum tab so other teams with the same question will be able to see it. Finally, be sure to check the Forum tab regularly—you might learn something you didn't even know you needed to know!

The Collegiate Wind Competition will be held at American Clean Power Association's CLEANPOWER Conference and Exhibition May 6-9, 2024, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

The competition organizers will provide a detailed schedule of CWC events at CLEANPOWER as the conference gets closer.